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No...pale white skin, milky...with red hair...I'm adamant !

Plantlife looks stunningly!

ckig wrote:Your plants fit in great with the official ones. Nicely done! The lack of variety of plants and my zero conversion skills is what puts me off an Ivy crew. Would love to see yours though

Thanks mate, and always great to have a new face round here. Those chaos spawn are handy blighters. Going to try some from dryad bits next I think...

Viktor von Domm wrote:No...pale white skin, milky...with red hair...I'm adamant !

Plantlife looks stunningly!

OK OK, classic it is

Not sure how I feel about her at this stage :

Looks great to me, very comic-book with the bright greens and red.

Thanks bud. I think she's done now :


And started on the swat

She's looking great. Just makes me think how scratchy that would be though as my allergies would be going nuts

August. Ragweed. Allergies. Ugh. But, on the bright side, I am completely unaffected by poison ivy the stuff in real life.

The mini is much better without green skin.

Always thought so. UMa Therman simply wore green tights and such

Back at work. Kids back tomorrow. Pah.

Still, a little progress. Super cop himself, first WIP.

An amazing sculpt of Gary Oldman, only hope I can do it justice. Going with a scheme that's closer, I hope, to the animated colours - browns, mostly. Going for a purple tie for variety - kids always buy their dad an awful tie, and I bet Babs would get him Batgirl colours just cos Debating hair colour. Thinking greying auburn?

Also, swat team progress.

Don't know whether to keep them all this very dark blue black or make the fabric a mid blue. I'm delighted, regardless, by the home made guy, who I keep forgetting isn't metal and being surprised when it's not heavy.

Lastly, beginning the gentleman's gentleman.

I decided that the bullet riddled piece was fitting - Alfred is utterly unflappable, after all.

Swamp Thing coming tomorrow or Friday, depending on when I get my act together. Looking at Catwoman (can work with Bats or Ivy, good investment), Harley (because Gotham Sirens), and Huntress, because I like her mix of range and speed (my bat-team lacks mobility just now).

Also waiting on the K-wing, but I shall force myself to be patient. A mate sent me the Scum ship cards from Most Wanted so it makes my rebel fleet suddenly playable as a different faction. It's quite neat - I wasn't really planning on picking up any Scum but it does mean my Ys, z, hwk, and firespray (slave 1) all have a new set of play options for be. Can't really complain

Hey ho,
Graven

All looking good! The homemade cop fits right in now!

Good work, Graven. The ram-swat fits in perfectly.

Thanks guys! Really is one of the boys isn't he?
Meanwhile, further distractions:


Oops...

Ivy's looking really nice along with Gordon.

Catwoman, Harley and Huntress all look good to me

Killer Frost maybe to help out the Sirens?

Killer frost is ace! Copperhead could also fit the bad chicks.

But then, there's the big guy:

who's coming along nicely I think

The swat - with flash:

so you can see the blue cloth, hopefully?

And I'm really pleased with this fella:


No more pics of Alfred just now. He's slightly miscast, and looks like he has an unfortunate facial expression right now. Don't know how to rectify this. Possibly, sleep.

Yeah, that.
Later,
graven

Great, especially Gordon!

If Alfred is actually miscast, I'd get in touch with Knight. By all accounts, they're very efficient at dealing with this kind of thing.

Nice work. All looking great, especially Swamp thing.

Love the swamp thing! But the people may be demanding a light box soon to take out those shadows

Nice work! Especially liking how Ivy turned out. Keep it up.

Ramping up the volume of work! Impressive! And each model looking cool as the next! Nicely done buddy!

Batman figures are nice looking!

Love the Alfred background - "ah yes Master Bruce, there appear to be a large number of bullets flying towards me. Would you like some tea?"

All the Batman stuff is looking great - congrats

Paradigm wrote:Great, especially Gordon!

If Alfred is actually miscast, I'd get in touch with Knight. By all accounts, they're very efficient at dealing with this kind of thing.

I know but I'm stubborn and they're moving office just now! If he were irreparable I'd decapitate him and turn him into a Red Hood though.

Dr H wrote:Nice work. All looking great, especially Swamp thing.

Cheers mate!

RiTides wrote:Love the swamp thing!
But the people may be demanding a light box soon to take out those shadows

That is true. Bear with me I have a plan.

ckig wrote:Nice work! Especially liking how Ivy turned out. Keep it up.

Thanks! Still not 100%, but never really satisfied. Really want some more chicas for her!

MagosBiff90 wrote:Ramping up the volume of work! Impressive! And each model looking cool as the next! Nicely done buddy!

Well it might stall a bit now I'm back at work! Cheers

shasolenzabi wrote:Batman figures are nice looking!

TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:Love the Alfred background - "ah yes Master Bruce, there appear to be a large number of bullets flying towards me. Would you like some tea?"

All the Batman stuff is looking great - congrats

Cheers. My thoughts about Alfred exactly

So, on we go.
Finished swat team:

Each has their designation on the left shoulder, as much for me as anything else! Really pleased with Echo (right hand end), don't think you can tell he's not "real". On the back they just say swat, rather than gcpd, so I can use them for Star City PD (they can work with Arrow too) or just generically.

I think I've repaired Alfred's face to my satisfaction :


Now to work on the clothing and continue weathering the metal.

And of course, the big fella:

A joy to paint. Wondering if he needs more but think he's there tbh.

And that's me, for now. Next, finish Alfred, onto Adam West and get back to Street furniture. It's good to have a plan
Later
Graven

All looking good! Alfred really is good! Love the base!

I have to second RiTides mention of a lightbox. I think the colors are getting a bit washed out in these photos. Or I need a new monitor. (Ooh, one of those new 4k monitors, yeah, that's it...)

And really, get the miscast replaced. I know that Corvus Belli will do so cheerfully, albeit slowly. The companies know they need to keep the addicts customers satisfied.

I was always under the impression that Alfred was not human. Android, Alien or something else ( Demon?) but certainly not human...

Paradigm wrote:All looking good! Alfred really is good! Love the base!

Thanks man! I'm really trying to get a feeling of wrecked, rusty metal.

Red Harvest wrote:I have to second RiTides mention of a lightbox. I think the colors are getting a bit washed out in these photos. Or I need a new monitor. (Ooh, one of those new 4k monitors, yeah, that's it...)

And really, get the miscast replaced. I know that Corvus Belli will do so cheerfully, albeit slowly. The companies know they need to keep the addicts customers satisfied.

I was always under the impression that Alfred was not human. Android, Alien or something else ( Demon?) but certainly not human...

Yeah, well, I'm working on a light box solution using cake boxes. I'll do a test with swampy asap. Also definitely go 4k! Anyway, Alfred's secretly the joker, everyone knows that right? I've emailed the company, if they replace him this one will get decapitated and turned into the Red Hood. Oh, the irony

whoa....what did you do with Alfred.... i just had a quick comparison view of before and after....you totally saved and won that battle...before he looked like an alien...and now he has the air of david niven on him... well done doesn´t cut it^^

Hahaha! He's totally Niven! Knife, gs, patience. Of course if he had one of those massive pistols you sent me, he'd be a great Red Hood thanks buddy

All looking good and great work fixing Alfred's face, can't tell it's been touched without looking back at the previous pictures.

Looking good!

As for the lightbox issue, you can try a wire or thin wooden rods and oven/parchment paper? Multiple light sources could be of help too.

Dr H wrote:All looking good and great work fixing Alfred's face, can't tell it's been touched without looking back at the previous pictures.

Thanks buddy. Means a lot.

Littletower wrote:Looking good!

As for the lightbox issue, you can try a wire or thin wooden rods and oven/parchment paper? Multiple light sources could be of help too.

Well, I've got me new lights from ikea to test!

K, testing new light rig pre box.
So, repaired and retouched Alfred:

Leaving the white bow tie I think
All in all, he's come out OK.

And Swamp thing:

Very happy with his muted palette.

Now, a plea of the grovelling variety. The LOER contest I'm running has 3 weeks left and seems to have pretty much stalled. (link in sig) please please please help a dakkanaut out and have a look, have a go (win free stuff), even mention in your own plogs!
Thanks my friends,
Graven

Nice work.

Lighting is good.
Something you can also try that can help with photos is to select the background to match the brightness of the mini': A dark mini' in front of a white background will end up looking too dark in a photo (in the same way, a light mini' in front of a dark background will look too light), and details can be lost.

Try a darker background (doesn't have to be black) with a dark mini', and use white (doesn't have to be white) for light mini's. Your camera will thank you for it.